COAL / UTILITIES
Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds Coal Plant Permit
The Powder River Basin Resource Council and Sierra Club challenged an air quality permit the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality issued for the plant in 2007, even though operators say they’ve installed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of pollution control equipment.
10Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DOE Passes on Clean Coal Project in Utah
The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that the project proposed by Deseret Power will not be selected to receive any funding under the latest clean energy initiative program. Instead, the agency has targeted coal projects in Alabama, West Virginia and Texas to receive nearly $1 billion in grants to help promote new technology for reducing CO2 from coal-fired resources.
28Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
IGCC Technology in a Reduced Carbon World — GE Energy Makes Its Case
This plant could become a model for new power generating facilities worldwide and help position the United States as a leader in low carbon power generation,” said Jonathan Briggs, regional director of the Americas for Hydrogen Energy.
18Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Fort Collins’ Power Provider Adds Electricity
from Wyoming Wind Farm
The Silver Sage project near Cheyenne is delivering electricity to Platte River Power Authority, which serves Fort Collins, Longmont, Loveland and Estes Park in Colorado. The new power more than doubles Platte River’s wind generation resources.
5Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Landowners Speak Out Against Gateway West
Transmission Project
Among the many landowners who spoke against aspects of the project during Monday’s meeting was Bob Whitton (right), Chairman of the Renewable Energy Alliance of Landowners.
16Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The Pros and Cons of Mining in the
Powder River Basin
Mining coal in the region does cause problems for the local and global environments, but also provides benefits to local and national economies. Steve McManamen of the Gillette News Record has written a timely and interesting piece that points out the dichotomy it presents and some, but not all, of the positive and negative aspects
30Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Study Says Wyoming Coal Essential to Secure
Energy Future
In case you missed it, a study by the Wyoming Mining Association on the economics of coal in the Powder River Basin concluded, not surprisingly, that the natural resource will be an essential part of the nation’s energy future even as the country moves toward cleaner power sources,.
23Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
BLM Delays Siting Process for Gateway
West Project
The agency is pushing back the completion date for its draft environmental impact statement for the Gateway West Transmission Line Project from this fall to next spring. The time will be used to identify more alternative routes with the project’s developers and local interests.
20Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Energy Research Projects Seek Stimulus Funds
Wyoming scientists and other groups have drawn up a range of proposals for stimulus-funded research projects to help the state’s energy industry, largely by studying how to deal with carbon dioxide emissions.
3Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Week-End Energy Updates
From Around the State
>> Cooling Job Markets Force Workers to Adjust
>> Coal Companies Look to Water Technology
>> Double Eagle Merging with Petrosearch
>> BP Petroleum Receives Safety Award
>> EnCana Names New Wind River Operations Leader
Peabody Energy Looking to the Wind in Wyoming?
The world’s largest private sector coal producer is looking at wind to reduce its energy costs. “We are evaluating whether or not one or several wind turbines may be helpful in supplementing the power supply,” said Vic Svec, a Peabody vice president.
17May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
White Energy, Peabody Partnering
on Powder River Basin Plant
The new plant will boost the heat value of coal mined in the Powder River Basin and process coal supplied from one of Peabody’s several mines in the basin.
15May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued